Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-10
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
NOT A SOUL WAS SAVED.
A German Ship Lost Off
Cape Henry.
EVERY MAN ON BOARD LOST
Life Saving Heroes Perish
With Them.
THREE LOVERS DIE TOGETHER
Carlisle In The Field For
Senator.
THREE LOVERS die TOGETHER
EVERY MAN ON BOARD LOST.

A German ship Goes Down eff Cape
Henry and Not n Soul 1s Saved-L1fe.
Saving Heroes Lose Their Lives I'm
Attempting to Rescue Them-An
Awful Night I'm the Icy Waters.
NORFOLK, Va, Jan. 9.-The crew of the
German ship Elizabeth, which was wrecked
at O'Clock yesterday morning off Cape
Henry, numbered twenty-five men. Not
one of these was saved. The body of the
captain is among those recovered. Letters
were found on the captains person addressed
to kenny Kaulkmann. The sea is still break
ing violently over the ship. None of the
names of the victims has yet been learned
except that of the captain, and even in his
case it is only inferred that the letters were
his own.
The morning was bitterly cold and a
binding snow storm prevailed with the
wind blowing gale from the northeast.
During a lull in the storm the ife-saving
patrol from Little Island life saving station
sighted a large ship stranded on the bar
about eight hundred yards from the shore.
When he saw the vessel he was waiting to
meet the patrol from Dam Neck sta
ton and exchange checks showing that both
patrolmen had been to the end of their beats.
The Dam Neck patrol was only few yards
distant when the vessel was sighted and
both fred rockets to notify the crew of the
stranded ship that she had been seen. They
hurried back to their respective stations
and gave the alarm. In a little while
both crews with lifeboats and apparatus
we're abreast of the wreck and the
boom of a mortar announced that a line had
been shot out to the Inflated vessel. The
shot was unsuccessful and a second was fred
with like result. After firing six unsuccess-
full shots the life-saving men determined to
brave the furious sea and the death which
seemed certain to await their venture. The
word of command being given by Captain
Belanza of life-saving station No. 4, known
as Little Island, six of the most expert boat
men manned each boat. At his command
the men gave way with a will and in mo-
ment both boats were breasting the furious
waves. They reached the ship in safety and
FIVE of the ships crew were taken in
lifeboat and ten in a ships boat,
which was launched for the purpose.
The boats were headed for shore and not
WORD was spoken, IOr eacu HAL FealiZou the
awful peril which surrounded them. With
steady pull the two boats were making
good Roadway for shore, when a wave of
great power struck both boats, capsizing
them Instantly and pitching their twenty two
occupants into the boiling sea. Then began
desperate struggle for life, and with many
of the men it was prolonged one. The hor-
rifed life-savers on the beach were powerless
to assist their drowning comrades or the I'M
fortunate strangers. The drowning men were
carried south ward by the seas and some of
them were washed ashore. AS they came
within reach they were picked up and en-
deavors were made to revive them, and in two
instances with success, although one of the
two is badly injured. Of the life-saving
crew the following were lost: Abel Belanza,
captain of No. 4, known as Little Island; J.
W. Land, same station; George w. Stone,
same; J. A. Belanza of Dam Neck station
and brother of Abel; Joseph Spratley of
Dam Neck. John Etheridge and Frank Tet-
ford of No. 4 station were washed ashore and
resuscitated, but Etheridge is so badly in
jured that it is thought he cannot survive.
Two Fishermen Probably Lost.
GLOUCESTER, Mass, Jan. 9.-The captain